It’s a pretty common trick: your weight goes up, your waist size grows, and you might find yourself classified as “obese”. So you add fictitious inches to your height. Thus you can say, “265lbs is not obese when you’re as tall as I am!”
Donald Trump has been doing this for years. He was able to shed his bone spurs without any difficulty (after the Vietnam War) , but those pesky fat globules have clung to his frame like layers of asphalt on a pot hole riddled road.
He can make all the claims he wants (and does) about his towering height of 6′ 3″, but those photos of him next to folks who are 6′ 2″ plainly show him as shorter than he claims. But, like his border wall that’s already being built, and his massively attended inauguration, Trump’s claims lack credibility.
Fact is, if he were to team up with Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, on their journey to see the Wizard of Oz, Trump would be asking the Wizard to make his height a healthy match to his weight. In other words, 7 ft tall.